NewsVine_Mariyam
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This is certainly not all of them but hopefully it's enough for you to get where I'm coming from. Let's start with the Black Codes:What laws criminalized behavior by black people but was not a crime when conducted by whites?If you would be outraged if any of the things that were lawfully done to black people in our country were ever done to you or any or your loved ones, then that's all you need to know. If it's wrong when it's done to you or yours, then it's wrong when done to anyone else.Most of that time was a different era with different understanding and standards.Sure, like when the United States was first founded and for the next 187 years thereafter. But that wasn't bad right?Look up the definition of racism.......to wit....giving preferential treatment to one race over another.More waste of our tax dollars.
But you want to apply today’s standards to those other eras. That’s nefarious. You’re the evil person.
What's evil is creating laws that criminalize behavior when conducted by black people that is not a crime when conducted by whites, including crimes of violence, like lynching, rapes, cross burnings, arsons, bombings, etc.
It speaks volumes about you that you believe that something you erroneously believe me to think, is more evil than acts of violence actually committed.
"Black Codes" in the antebellum South strongly regulated the activities and behavior of blacks, especially free Blacks, who were not considered citizens. Chattel slaves basically lived under the complete control of their owners, so there was little need for extensive legislation. "All Southern states imposed at least minimal limits on slave punishment, for example, by making murder or life-threatening injury of slaves a crime, and a few states allowed slaves a limited right of self-defense. [note: to protect the owner's "property"] "[8] As slaves could not use the courts or sheriff, or give testimony against a white man, in practice these meant little.
North Carolina restricted slaves from leaving their plantation; if a male slave tried to court (date) a female slave on another property, he needed a pass in order to pursue this relationship. Without one he risked severe punishment at the hands of the patrollers.[9]
Free blacks presented a challenge to the boundaries of white-dominated society.[10] In many Southern states, particularly after Nat Turner's insurrection of 1831, they were denied the rights of citizens to assemble in groups, bear arms, learn to read and write, exercise free speech, or testify against white people in Court.[11][12][13][8] After 1810, states made manumissions of slaves more difficult to obtain, in some states requiring an act of the legislature for each case of manumission. This sharply reduced the incidence of planters freeing slaves.[8]
All the slave states passed anti-miscegenation laws, banning the marriage of white and black people.
Between 1687 and 1865, Virginia enacted more than 130 slave statutes, among which were seven major slave codes, with some containing more than fifty provisions.[14]
Continued here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)
If he laws aren't enforced then there is no justice for the victims, even if they are on the books. How else can you explain a mob of 3,000 whites torching an entire black neighborhood, killing at a minimum several dozen and the only people arrested were the victims of the mob, over a hundred black people. Oh and the sheriff, who wouldn't turn over to the mob, a black teenage boy they showed up to lynch.Lynching aka vigilante actions were illegal for all....those whites who lynched anyone and whites as well as blacks were lynched especially out west......were in violation of the law.If you would be outraged if any of the things that were lawfully done to black people in our country were ever done to you or any or your loved ones, then that's all you need to know. If it's wrong when it's done to you or yours, then it's wrong when done to anyone else.Most of that time was a different era with different understanding and standards.Sure, like when the United States was first founded and for the next 187 years thereafter. But that wasn't bad right?Look up the definition of racism.......to wit....giving preferential treatment to one race over another.More waste of our tax dollars.
But you want to apply today’s standards to those other eras. That’s nefarious. You’re the evil person.
What's evil is creating laws that criminalize behavior when conducted by black people that is not a crime when conducted by whites, including crimes of violence, like lynching, rapes, cross burnings, arsons, bombings, etc.
It speaks volumes about you that you believe that something you erroneously believe me to think, is more evil than acts of violence actually committed.
Tulsa Race Massacre